[juneau-lug] Re: Running homebrew video DVD's

  • From: Chuck Hakari <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:17:25 -0900

James,

My install of K3b also has dvd-video shown as a mkisofs option. Guess I 
could try burning with growisofs from the commandline.

I use Kino to grab DV from my camcorder and do the conversion to MPEG2.

I have also tinkered a bit with Jashaka. Haven't done more than one of 
the tutorials with it, though.

I have also tinkered a bit with DVDStyler, though not the latest 
version, which I was having a problem installing.

KMediaFactory works with templates and pretty much does everything for 
you. My slideshow went together real fast.

Thanks for the help. I will keep picking away at it.

Chuck

>Huh.  I'm not familiar with KMediaFactory.  I've been using Kino to turn DV 
>video into MPEG2, then dvdauthor to turn the MPEG2 to a DVD file system, then 
>growisofs to burn it.  I've just tonight started playing with Kino/DVDStyler, 
>which helps with the menu items.
>
>Two possibilities come to mind:
>
>1) K3b isn't creating the DVD with the "--dvd-video" option to 
>mkisofs/growisofs.  That will result in a DVD that will look just like a video 
>DVD if you mount it and inspect the directory tree, but won't play on a 
>standalone player because it is really a DVD-ROM disc, not a DVD-Video disc.  
>Kino would also fail with this disc, with an MRL not found error.
>
>2) K3b and/or KMediaFactory is being really dumb and writing the MPEG2 file 
>straight to the DVD.  Could be your XP install knows what to do with that 
>file, but your W2k install doesn't.  But Kino would...
>
>So it sort of sounds like No.1 is a likely avenue for investigation, although 
>my install of K3b has --dvd-video shown as a mkisofs option in the setup menu 
>(settings -> configure K3b -> programs).
>
>Very strange.
>
>James
>
>  
>
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